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Aake Nordlund
Researcher at Niels Bohr Institute
Publications - 46
Citations - 4105
Aake Nordlund is an academic researcher from Niels Bohr Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic field & Star formation. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 46 publications receiving 4007 citations. Previous affiliations of Aake Nordlund include University of Alabama.
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The Stellar Initial Mass Function from Turbulent Fragmentation
Paolo Padoan,Aake Nordlund +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conclude that turbulent fragmentation is unavoidable in super-sonically turbulent molecular clouds, and given the success of the present model to predict the observed shape of the Stellar IMF, they conclude that turbulence is essential to the origin of the stellar IMF.
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The Stellar IMF from Turbulent Fragmentation
Paolo Padoan,Aake Nordlund +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the mass distribution of gravitationally unstable cores generated by the process of turbulent fragmentation, which is referred to as "turbulent fragmentation", and showed that turbulent fragmentation is essential to the origin of the stellar IMF.
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The Star Formation Rate of Supersonic MHD Turbulence
Paolo Padoan,Aake Nordlund +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new physical model of the star formation rate, verified with an unprecedented set of large numerical simulations of driven, supersonic, self-gravitating, magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where collapsing cores are captured with accreting sink particles.
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Two Regimes of Turbulent Fragmentation and the Stellar Initial Mass Function from Primordial to Present-Day Star Formation
TL;DR: The Padoan and Nordlund model of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is derived from low-order statistics of supersonic turbulence, neglecting gravity (e.g., gravitational fragmentation, accretion, and merging).
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Supersonic turbulence in the ISM: stellar extinction determinations as probes of the structure and dynamics of dark clouds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that the 3D density field of the gas is well described by a log-normal distribution down to very small scales, and that the power spectrum and the standard deviation of the density field can be constrained by the supersonic turbulence in the gas.